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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"New religious movement."”.
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Returning to Babylon: Processes of social change and the characteristics of former participants in a new religious movement
… who were formerly involved in a millennarian religious movement that formed as a separatist schism from one of the Mormon denominations, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (R.L.D.S. church). The history of the Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism) itself has been one …
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Rice Paddy to Wheatfield: Caodaism in America's Heartland
Caodaism is a new religious movement which combines elements of the belief systems of many of the world's religions. Created in 1926 in Vietnam, Caodaism grew to become the third largest religion in Vietnam in only a few decades. Today, there are some three million practicing Caodaists in the …
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Defining Twin Cities Wicca: The Emergence of Wicca as a Polyaffiliated Pagan Movement
… predicting the future success or failure of a new religious movement is utilized to forecast Wicca and Paganism in the Twin Cities. Challenges for Christians evangelizing Wiccans and Pagans are discussed, and nine perspectives are offered for Christians seeking to engage Wiccans and Pagans with …
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Why Aren't More Heathens Eco-Pagan Vegetarians? The Intersection Of Gender, Politics, And Spiritual Environmentalism
<p>Neo-Paganism, a nature-based new religious movement, provides a rich backdrop for the study of spiritual environmentalism. This ethnographic project analyzes the dynamic interconnectedness of neo-paganism and environmentalism, or "eco-paganism," and how Heathenry reframes the natural world using …
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Asatru in America: A New American Religion
Asatru is a New Religious Movement reconstructing the practice of pre-Christian Norse and Germanic Pagan religion. It has been one of the least studied of the Pagan movements in America. In addition, Asatru has often been associated with far right or fascist political views and racist ideology, …
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‘Travellers in Faith’ or ‘Stealthy Legions’: The Gurāgē role in the rise of Tablīghī Jamā‘at in Ethiopia
… Jamā‘at, one of a Sunni Islamic missionary movements that focuses on faith renewal. The movement originated in India in the 1920s and came to Ethiopia in the 1960s, it operated in a similar manner to its mother movement in India. Haji Musa Mahmood Ahmad Kikiya was the Ethiopian pioneer and …
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Mississippian missionaries: bundling a Cahokian religious movement
… CE). Drawing from Indigenous philosophies and New Materialisms, I use the bundle and bundling concept to hypothesize that the establishment and dissemination of a Cahokia-Mississippian religion is best understood as a bundled mission comprised of missionaries (human and other-than-human), …
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Memory struggles: Narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015
… Aum Affair was a series of crimes committed by new religious movement Aum Shinrikyō between 1988 and 1995, which culminated in the gassing of the Tokyo subway system using sarin in March 1995. The Tokyo attack was the largest act of terrorism in post-war Japan. I combine qualitative methods of …
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Julia Hills Johnson, 1783-1853 MY SOUL REJOICED
… spiritual fulfillment in the doctrines of a new religion called Mormonism. Her baptism in 1831 was a simple act that ultimately led her halfway across the American continent, and strained her marital relationship, yet filled her with a sense of spiritual contentment. Julia's commitment to her …
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Shanti Mandir: Authenticity, Economy and Emotion in a Yoga Ashram
… This is achieved by participating in the daily religious practice, which focuses on the devotional aspects of the guru-bhakti tradition and functions primarily through non-market (emotional) labour in the form of gurusevā (volunteer service to the guru). Individuals engage in this system in …
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Shanti Mandir: Authenticity, Economy and Emotion in a Yoga Ashram
… This is achieved by participating in the daily religious practice, which focuses on the devotional aspects of the guru-bhakti tradition and functions primarily through non-market (emotional) labour in the form of gurusevā (volunteer service to the guru). Individuals engage in this system in …
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Exploring the experiences of depression within Krishna consciousness devotees: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… use as a protective measure for depression. A new religious movement known as Krishna Consciousness (KC) has lately become a topic of interest with research indicating a large presence of depression alongside other mental health difficulties in this growing movement. Investigations have …
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Tracking emergent religious groups in the US and adherence over time.
Emergent religious groups are an innovative but chronically understudied and misunderstood realm of contemporary religion. This may be due to notorious difficulties encountered when estimating the size of populations involved with emergent religious groups at any given time. To address this …